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Derby #262: Gold closed for voting at noon today. Three of these designs will go on sale one at a time over the next three days - the rest will go down in near-miss history. Click on each picture below to see that entry's page, with a fuller view of the design. The final nine, in no particular order...

Blanche, Sophia, Dorothy, Rose by adkid

Molten Phoenix by anemality

Elemental Thievery by mutantninja

Golden Ratio by expo01

Flight of the Golden Fish by rasabi

Everything is Golden by paxdomino

From Gilded Ashes by anemality

14 Karat Gold by DianaSprinkle

An Inevitable Fate by wirdou

Come back tonight at midnight to see (and, of course, buy) our first-place winner. Then do the same thing Saturday and Sunday morning. Please? Thanks for Derbying!

bounty42

deborah11565 wrote:How in the hell is churchill rejected because he is a celebrity..... not !! ANd some friggin pic of shakespeare is still there...." Oh My God" these people are crazy !! AND the queen is still there !!

One is a PICTURE of Churchill, the otehr is a CHARACTATURE of Shakespeare.

Numquam minoris aestimo potentia stultis, maxime in magna coetus
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■(1:40 PM, 7/27/2012) bounty42 quips, "Forget Guest Editor, what we need is a Guest Rejectionator."
■(10:40 AM, 6/21/2012 ) bounty42 inquires, "Is it just me, or do we not typically get this many Editors Choice shirts?"
■(2:02 PM, 6/15/2012) bounty42 runs numbers.
■(10:40 AM, 6/7/2012) bounty42 dispenses wisdom for all those 'too late' naysayers, "A woot shirt is never late, nor is it early, it arrives precisely when it means to."
■(3:20 PM, 5/18/2012) bounty42 states, "The turtle is very cute, and I love the smug look he's got."

cdrewlow

deborah11565 wrote:How in the hell is churchill rejected because he is a celebrity..... not !! ANd some friggin pic of shakespeare is still there...." Oh My God" these people are crazy !! AND the queen is still there !!

bounty42

They did, he resubmitted after the last of the Rejectionator waves.
What ?This is the bigger issue, we see 2, maybe 3, passes by the rejectionator a week. And then I think they only check the Tattles, and the top 20.

This means if you see a Design that needs Rejecting TATTLE ON IT! A shirt with 1 tattle might not get an immediate reaction, but if they're seeing 4-7 messages about the shirt, it may prompt someone to stop in on the Derby and swing the BanHammer around a bit.

Numquam minoris aestimo potentia stultis, maxime in magna coetus
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■(1:40 PM, 7/27/2012) bounty42 quips, "Forget Guest Editor, what we need is a Guest Rejectionator."
■(10:40 AM, 6/21/2012 ) bounty42 inquires, "Is it just me, or do we not typically get this many Editors Choice shirts?"
■(2:02 PM, 6/15/2012) bounty42 runs numbers.
■(10:40 AM, 6/7/2012) bounty42 dispenses wisdom for all those 'too late' naysayers, "A woot shirt is never late, nor is it early, it arrives precisely when it means to."
■(3:20 PM, 5/18/2012) bounty42 states, "The turtle is very cute, and I love the smug look he's got."

cdrewlow

bounty42 wrote:They did, he resubmitted after the last of the Rejectionator waves.
What ?This is the bigger issue, we see 2, maybe 3, passes by the rejectionator a week. And then I think they only check the Tattles, and the top 20.

This means if you see a Design that needs Rejecting TATTLE ON IT! A shirt with 1 tattle might not get an immediate reaction, but if they're seeing 4-7 messages about the shirt, it may prompt someone to stop in on the Derby and swing the BanHammer around a bit.

I understand not rejecting shirts after Tuesday in the old derby format, but now that winning shirts can hypothetically be entered at the last minute, maybe they need to do one last pass on Wednesday to weed out any problem designs that the guest editor might choose.

bounty42

cdrewlow wrote:I understand not rejecting shirts after Tuesday in the old derby format, but now that winning shirts can hypothetically be entered at the last minute, maybe they need to do one last pass on Wednesday to weed out any problem designs that the guest editor might choose.

IN reality there's not a chance a rejection shirt will get picked by the people who do the rejecting, but I agree. I think there should be 2-3 passes a day by the Rejectionator, and I think there should be more than a auto-text reason for rejection, since we look to rejections to refine our own entries. Like I said in the new format announcement "Forget Guest Editor, what we need is a Guest Rejectionator."

Numquam minoris aestimo potentia stultis, maxime in magna coetus
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■(1:40 PM, 7/27/2012) bounty42 quips, "Forget Guest Editor, what we need is a Guest Rejectionator."
■(10:40 AM, 6/21/2012 ) bounty42 inquires, "Is it just me, or do we not typically get this many Editors Choice shirts?"
■(2:02 PM, 6/15/2012) bounty42 runs numbers.
■(10:40 AM, 6/7/2012) bounty42 dispenses wisdom for all those 'too late' naysayers, "A woot shirt is never late, nor is it early, it arrives precisely when it means to."
■(3:20 PM, 5/18/2012) bounty42 states, "The turtle is very cute, and I love the smug look he's got."

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